The Careless Flower. London: Pilot Press, 1947. First edition. Pp, 240. Maroon cloth, title lettered in gilt to spine, in heavily chipped dust jacket with some loss. Inscribed & Dated by the Author on title-page. A novel in four episodes described as “A fantasy, interwoven with an uncanny insight into real people, their everyday actions and secret wishes written with the unforced poetry of the Irish genius.”